Started a March '19 thread here:
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My actual face. This blows my mind.
LOL! I don’t think this works with flaky crust, it needs a higher heat to raise, maybe with a cookie crust or a shortcrust pastry.
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I do the same!
LOL, should do it the Chinese way for Hainanese Chicken… Use a cleaver to chop up the chicken in pieces WITH their bones and skins. 
I don’t like soggy skins, and the legs (drumsticks) don’t really need to be hacked in half given the concentration of meat 
So better a richer broth!
When I have bone-in breasts as well, I do cut them up.
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I have a nice heavy duty cleaver but I still have never mastered this. I keep thinking about my poor knife and not wanting to ruin the edge. I also have thin cutting boards, and I find it doesn’t provide much cushion to the force I have use to hack through the bone it sits on my counters (even when I layer 3-4 together). I feel like I’m about to break the granite, or I’m not using enough force to cut through. I do miss having something like my mom’s 4 inch thick butcher block, but I would never need it for anything but chopping through chicken bones.
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haha, me too, I have never master the bone chopping. It seems easy when the guy do it in the Cantonese place (take away duck, or pork). I worry that my work top will suffer. Once I put the chop board on the floor, but I worried that my tiles would crack. I think one needs some confidence and strength to do it well.
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And then there’s the problem of bone splinters. Who can guarantee that the bones will cut into clean, splinterless pieces?
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You need a good sharp knife.
But it also has to be a fairly heavy cleaver. A normal sharp knife would chip when splitting bones.
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That’s right. Need a heavy duty chop board too. The normal ones are too fine and delicate for this. Actually I notice my cheap cleaver is not even sharp…but extremely heavy.
I am just getting into it, but it’s very interesting. So far, the recipes are delicious. My husband knows the author.
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MARCH thread 
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So we tried your hash browns tonight. They came out great. Not quite as beautiful as in your picture, but still great. I had to make two batches. I had the temperature too low on the first batch, so it took a little too long. But the second batch came out really great. I followed your advice about heating the shredded potatoes in the empty pan before getting serious. It was a great success. Thank you!
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We tried your cucumber miso appetizer tonight, and liked it very much. We tried it with two different misos, and all of us preferred the lighter version.
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Yay! glad it turned out for you! hash browns are goooood…
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